Eastman External Emergency Plan Is Being Implemented
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External Emergency Plan – Solutia UK Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company Version 4 July 2019 The emergency response outlined in this Plan has been developed in consultation with a planning group representing the following organisations and reflects arrangements jointly agreed by them: Eastman Heddlu Gwent Police South Wales Fire and Rescue Service Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Public Health Wales Newport City Council Natural Resources Wales Health and Safety Executive Views on the Plan were also sought from the following organisation with interests in the vicinity of the site: South Wales Trunk Road Agency SDR Contractor – NCC City Services Food Standards Agency Wales Nash Community Council Network Rail Wales and West Utilities Dwr Cymru/ Welsh Water Western Power Distribution BT All organisations contained within the distribution list of this document (Appendix W) are responsible for the control and management of the document including its content within their respective organisations. Page 1 of 68 AMMENDMENTS To ensure that the validity of this Plan is maintained, Plan holders are requested to inform the Civil Contingencies Unit of any amendments to the information presented within the Plan by writing to: Civil Contingencies Unit Newport City Centre Civic Centre Newport NP20 4UR Tel: 01633 656656 email: [email protected] Date Amended by Amendment Version 01/11/2004 First issue of plan V1 01/11/2007 CCU Revised edition in new formation with Updated police control points and maps Revised Eastman details V2 Notification flow chart changes Other responders amendments / updates 27/11/2010 CCU Revised edition following live exercise March 2009 and issues identified Sounding of siren Police “bronze” Media communications V3 Eastman notification Off-site monitoring Frequency of briefings HGP initial attendance and co-ordination 31/07/2012 CCU Revised Section 5 – activation of the plan to qualify protocols V3.1 and lessons learned from December 2011 incident. 31/03/2014 CCU Revision arising from June 2013 V3.2 Exercise Report 01/06/2019 CCU Revision arising from May 2016 Exercise Report and update of COMAH Regulations V4 Revision to notification chart Rationalising of traffic control points Page 2 of 68 Contents Page 1 INTRODUCTION 6 2 AIM 6 3 SCOPE 6 4 PUBLIC INFORMATION / CONSULTATION ZONE (PIZ) 7 5 ACTIVATION OF THE PLAN 7 6 INITIAL RESPONSE ARRANGEMENTS 8 6.1 HEALTH AND SAFETY 8 6.2 EXTERNAL ALARM AND PUBLIC WARNING 8 7. CONTROL AND CO-ORDINATION ARRANGEMENTS 9 7.1 RESPONSIBILITY ON SITE 9 7.2 ESTABLISHMENT OF AN EMERGENCY CONTROL CENTRE (ECC) 9 7.3 INNER CORDON PROTOCOL 9 7.4 OVERALL CO-ORDINATION 10 7.5 STRATEGIC (GOLD) CO-ORDINATION 10 7.6 TACTICAL (SILVER) 11 7.7 OPERATIONAL (BRONZE) CONTROL LOCATION 11 7.8 CASUALTIES 11 7.9 PUBLIC HEALTH WALES 12 7.10 NEWPORT CITY COUNCIL 12 7.11 HEDDLU GWENT POLICE 12 7.12 A48 DIVERSIONS 12 7.13 TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT 12 7.14 COMMUNICATIONS 13 7.15 CARE CENTRE 13 7.16 ACCESS TO SITE 13 7.17 MEDIA INFORMATION 13 7.18 STAND DOWN 14 8 ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 14 8.1 EASTMAN 14 8.2 SOUTH WALES FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE (SWFRS) 16 8.3 HEDDLU GWENT POLICE 16 8.4 WELSH AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST 17 8.5 ANEURIN BEVAN UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD (ABUHB) 18 Page 3 of 68 8.6 PUBLIC HEALTH WALES 18 8.7 NATURAL RESOURCES WALES 19 8.8 SOUTH WALES TRUNK ROAD AGENCY (SWTRA) 21 8.9 NEWPORT CITY COUNCIL CITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT 21 8.10 NETWORK RAIL 21 8.11 FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY WALES 21 8.12 DWR CYMRU / WELSH WATER 22 8.13 WALES AND WEST UTILITIES 22 8.14 WESTERN POWER DISTRIBUTION 22 8.15 HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE (HSE) 22 8.16 BT 22 9 SITE INFORMATION 22 9.1 LOCATION AND ACCESS 22 9.2 PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS 23 9.3 ASSOCIATED COMPANIES 23 9.4 WIND DIRECTION 24 9.5 STAFFING LEVELS 24 9.6 INTERNAL RESPONSE TEAMS 24 9.7 SITE DRAINAGE 24 10 SUBSTANCES HELD ON SITE 25 10.1 DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES THAT INDIVIDUALLY EXCEED TOP TIER THRESHOLD 25 10.2 OTHER DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES PRESENT BELOW THE TOP TIER THRESHOLD 25 10.3 PRODUCT INFORMATION AND ADVICE 25 11. MAJOR ACCIDENT HAZARDS 25 11.3 SUMMARY TABLE OF MAJOR ACCIDENTS WITH POTENTIAL EXTERNAL EFFECTS 26 12 MODELLING ASSUMPTIONS 26 13 PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS 27 14 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS 33 APPENDIX A – HSE STATUTORY & EASTMAN VOLUNTARY PUBLIC INFORMATION/CONSULTATION ZONES (PIZ) 34 APPENDIX B – SOUTH WALES FIRE & RESCUE NOTIFICATION VIA METHANE MNEMONIC 35 APPENDIX C – NOTIFICATION FLOW CHART UPON INCIDENT OCCURRING WITH POTENTIAL EXTERNAL IMPLICATIONS 37 APPENDIX D – DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES THAT INDIVIDUALLY EXCEED UPPER TIER THRESHOLD 38 Page 4 of 68 APPENDIX E - OTHER DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES PRESENT BELOW THE UPPER TIER THRESHOLD QUANTITY 39 APPENDIX F – PRODUCT INFORMATION AND ADVICE 42 APPENDIX G – MEDIA CIRCULATION LIST PUBLIC WARNING STATEMENT 43 APPENDIX H – COMMUNICATIONS 44 APPENDIX I – KEY SITE LOCATIONS AND ACCESS ROUTES 46 APPENDIX J – TRAFFIC CORDON CONTROL POINTS 49 APPENDIX K – LOCATION MAP OF EFFLUENT PIPELINE 50 APPENDIX L – GWENT LEVELS WETLANDS RESERVE 51 APPENDIX M – RESOURCES ON SITE 52 APPENDIX N – PREMISES AND SERVICES IN THE VICINITY OF EASTMAN – INDICATIVE LIST 54 APPENDIX O – PUBLIC SAFETY ADVICE 55 SAMPLE LETTER MAJOR EMERGENCY 56 MAJOR EMERGENCY SAFETY ADVICE CARD 57 APPENDIX P – SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ADVICE 58 APPENDIX Q – AIR QUALITY IN A MAJOR INCIDENT 61 APPENDIX R – ON-SITE ALERTING ARRANGEMENTS 62 APPENDIX S – JESIP DOCTRINE AND PRINCIPLES 63 APPENDIX T – SAFETY DATA SHEETS 64 APPENDIX U – GLOSSARY 65 APPENDIX V – ON-SITE MULTI-AGENCY GROUP – SUGGESTED AGENDA FOR INITIAL MEETING 68 APPENDIX W – DISTRIBUTION LIST 69 Page 5 of 68 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Eastman (Solutia UK Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company) are a chemical manufacturer based in the Lliswerry area of Newport, situated off Traston Road. 1.2 This plan has been compiled to meet the legal requirements of Regulation 13 of the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations 2015. Under this regulation, Newport City Council has a duty to produce an external emergency plan for sites in the city that, due to storage of dangerous substances, have the potential for a major accident with effects beyond the site boundary. 1.3 Eastman fall within the scope of the upper-tier COMAH Regulations due to their capacity to store dangerous substances above upper-tier threshold levels namely phosphorous trichloride, benzene, heavy fuel oil and biphenyl. Other dangerous substances are also present below upper-tier threshold quantity. 1.4 The External Emergency Plan is complementary to the multi-agency Gwent Major Incident Response Arrangements and existing procedures of the emergency services and dovetails with Eastman’s on-site emergency plan. 2 AIM 2.1 The aim of this Plan is to co-ordinate an efficient and effective multi-agency response by those organisations involved in mitigating the off-site effects of a major incident at Eastman. 3 SCOPE 3.1 The Plan is designed to be flexible, taking account of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance requiring the degree of planning to ‘be proportional to the probability of the accident occurring’ yet recognising the potential for expansion to deal with a worst-case scenario. 3.2 This Plan does not cover the response to incidents where the effects are contained within the site boundary, which is dealt within the Company’s internal emergency plan, in accordance with Regulation 12 of the COMAH Regulations. 3.3 This Plan does not detail any specific arrangements in relation to the potential for ‘domino incidents’ as initially highlighted by the HSE to Eastman. The Company is satisfied that after consultation with Birdport Page 6 of 68 Limited, Flogas UK plc, and Tradebe there is, at present, no evident potential for domino incidents. Consequently, no additional specific measures are required in this plan. 4 PUBLIC INFORMATION / CONSULTATION ZONE (PIZ) 4.1 The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) statutory and Eastman voluntary PIZ can be found in Appendix A. The statutory PIZ is determined by the HSE following consideration of the likelihood and effects of possible major accidents at the site. It is set on the basis that people outside it are not at significant immediate risk from major accidents, although they could if the accident escalates. The zone does not extend to where a major accident might affect the environment alone. The revised statutory PIZ now partly incorporates the Liberty Steel and Hart Farm properties. 4.2 The Eastman voluntary PIZ (Appendix A) extends off-site to established road, footpath and field boundaries, to a point that is deemed reasonable and realistic in the circumstances. This zone can be changed by the company in consultation with the HSE and other key responders. 4.3 As the statutory PIZ now extends beyond the site boundary, there is a legal requirement on the Company to provide prior information to people living or working within this zone. 4.4 Whilst there is no requirement for the Company to consult outside of the statutory PIZ, Eastman have elected, voluntarily, to the extension of the consultation zone, so that information regarding the activity and hazards on site can be made available to the public. For this purpose the HSE and Eastman have agreed to set the PIZ to follow natural boundaries around and beyond the perimeter of the site. 5 ACTIVATION OF THE PLAN 5.1 This plan must be activated in the event of any incident at Eastman with potential off-site effects. To ensure that all necessary measures to safeguard the public and environment are established as quickly as possible, the following initial responsibilities have been agreed.